Just over a year ago, I finished a tumultuous posting as the ABC’s Indonesia correspondent, marked by mob violence, natural disasters and a bitterly divisive election.

I headed to the US, with my wife, Heidi, and son, Hugo, to take up the position of bureau chief in Washington.

Lipson standing in front of Capitol Building.
Lipson expected the Washington posting would be more stable than his time in Indonesia, but he couldn’t have been more wrong.(ABC News)

We left Indonesia because an air pollution crisis there was affecting Hugo’s health.

It had been really challenging having our first baby and moving straight to Jakarta when he was just…



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